Baram tteok

Baram-tteok (바람떡) is a Korean dessert made from rice flour and adzuki bean paste. The “tteok”, pronounced ‘duk’, means rice cake. Baram rice cakes look like Japanese daifuku, their hollowed out centers filled with adzuki bean paste but these brightly colored tidbits have a flavor all their own.

It is a traditional Korean food made from non-glutinous rice. It is similar to Songpyeon, injeormi, tteokbokki tteok. They have become a popular symbol of traditional Korean culture. They are often half-moon-shaped rice cakes that contain sweet red bean paste.

Variants containing sweet mung bean rather than Azuki bean are very common, particularly among the Korean communities of Los Angeles, California.